Clothes-pin.



F. LUERSEN.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED Aue.8. I9I4.

1,155,254., PatentedSept. 28, 1915.

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WITNESSES l1 ITOR/VEYS COLUMBIA PLANOGRA'PH CCLJVASHINGTON, b. c.

United States Patent No. 1,137,

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' CLOTHES-PIN."

Specification of Lette'rs Patent. Patanjteti Sept. 28, 191-5.

Original application filed January 14, 1914, Serial No. 812,928. Dividedand this application filed August 8, 1914. Serial No. 855,810.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnrrz LUERSEN, a citi- Zen of the United States, anda resident of Price, in the county of Carbon and State of Utah, haveinvented a new and Improved Clothes-Pin, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The present application is a division of 505 filed January 14:, 191 1,Serial No. 812,028.

The present invention relates particularly to a novel form of clothespinso constructed that series of the pins may be strung on a clothes lineand be movable thereon to different relative positions. The respectivepins have a plurality of clamping means so that a pin may formaconnection between garments on a line in suspending the same.

The invention will be particularly 6X- plained in the specificdescription following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters 10 produced by returningthe wire on itself.

The members of the shank are crossed or twisted as at 11 and the bend isgiven the form of a closed loop 12 for the passage of' a clothes line A.Toward the lower ends the shank members are deflected toward each otheras at 13 and brought into close relation, thereby producing rests orstop shoulders for the clamps hereinafter described. Below the shoulders11 the shanks are continued downwardly as at 14 and then laterally inopposite directions as at 15. The extreme terminal ends are bentrespectively rearwardly and forwardlyas at 16, that is to say, inopposite directions.

of ref-f erence indicate corresponding parts in both body is providedand In connection with the body formed as described, clamps are providedfor vertical shdingmovement on the shank members 10 and said clamps eachcomprise a length of wlre bent upon itself and around a shank member 10as at 17, providing a pair of laterally disposed members 18. At theouter ends of the lateral members 18 the wire is carried downwardly inthe form of dependmg resilient members 19 the lower ends of which curveoutwardly as at 20. The pendant members 19'pass each side of the lateralmembers 15 on the body inside of the terminal ends or hooks 16. Theconstruction permits of vertical sliding movement of the clamps on theshank members 10, there being frictional engagement between the lateralarms 15 of the body and the pendant members 19 of the clamps.

In use the clothes indicated by the letter a are clamped at oppositecorners by the ad jacent clamps of adjacent clothespins, the clothesbeing forced between a pendant member 19 of a clamp and the arm 15 ofthe body, the clamp being given the necessary vertical movement asindicated by the full line and dot-ted line positions indicated at theleft'of Fig. l.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and deslre tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. The herein described clothespin,comprising a .body presenting shanks spaced QFHQEQ ing dependingresilient clamp members, the

said shanks 5 having lateral arms disposed between the reslhent membersof the clamps.

' 2. A clothespin, comprising a body and clamps thereon, the body havinga loop at itsupperend to receive a clothes line, spaced shan: membersbelow the loop, said shank members having shoulders above the lowerterminals thereof, and lateral arms at the lower ends of the shanks, thesaid arms terminating respectively in forwardly and rearwardly disposedends and the clampsbeing slidable on the respective shank members, eachclamp comprising a length of wire bent upon ltSGllE around the shankmember and then bent in a downward direction to name to thisspecification in the presence of prgvid; plendzint clamp g emhfle 's,the loweg tworsubscribing Witnesses. en s 0 t e e amp mem ers lverglngan 7 v V T being disposed at opposite sides of the lab FRITZ LUERSE1\' r5 eral arms on the shanks, near the terminals Witnesses: w ofSaid-shanks. d 7'. j .7 G. E. NELMs,

V In testimony whereof I have signed my LQE. MANNING.

Oepies'of this patent may be obtained for five cents'each, by addressingthe f Commissioner of Patent i Washington, 110.

